Climate averages 1991–2020
Lagos weather
in May.
A hot, very wet month: the 7th warmest and the 11th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a hot month in Lagos: daytime highs average 29.2°C and nights cool to about 25.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the 7th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 217 mm of rain on roughly 27 days, which makes May a very wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 25 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Ajegunle (7 km away). In May its highs average 29.4°C, about as warm as Lagos, with 196 mm of rain.
Among the 143 cities listed in Nigeria, Lagos ranks joint 131st of 143 for the warmest May highs and joint 108th of 143 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 143 cities is 31.7°C; Lagos is 2.5°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs fall by 1.5°C to 27.7°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 217 mm to 293 mm.
The annual picture
May in context
Monthly rainfall
Average total · mmAverages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated
Every month, side by side
Lagos climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 30.8°C24.6°C | 24.6°C | 31 | 9.0 | 11.812 h |
| February | 31.1°C25.6°C | 25.6°C | 45 | 12.0 | 11.912 h |
| March | 30.7°C26.3°C | 26.3°C | 91 | 20.0 | 12.112 h |
| April | 30.2°C26.2°C | 26.2°C | 131 | 21.7 | 12.312 h |
| May, selected | 29.2°C25.5°C | 25.5°C | 217 | 27.1 | 12.412 h |
| June | 27.7°C24.4°C | 24.4°C | 293 | 28.1 | 12.512 h |
| July | 26.8°C23.7°C | 23.7°C | 214 | 25.0 | 12.512 h |
| August | 26.5°C23.5°C | 23.5°C | 140 | 19.9 | 12.312 h |
| September | 27.1°C23.8°C | 23.8°C | 192 | 25.4 | 12.212 h |
| October | 28.1°C24.3°C | 24.3°C | 176 | 26.7 | 12.012 h |
| November | 29.3°C25.1°C | 25.1°C | 79 | 19.4 | 11.812 h |
| December | 30.4°C24.9°C | 24.9°C | 33 | 10.9 | 11.812 h |
Rainfall is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A rain day is a local calendar day with at least 1 mm of precipitation. Daylight is the calculated sunrise-to-sunset length, not measured sunshine.
Compare places
May in nearby cities
- Ajegunle in MayNigeria · 7 kmHigh 29.4°C · Low 25.4°C · 196 mm rain
- Lekki in MayNigeria · 9 kmHigh 28.9°C · Low 25.8°C · 217 mm rain
- Agege in MayNigeria · 19 kmHigh 29.6°C · Low 24.7°C · 196 mm rain
- Ebute Ikorodu in MayNigeria · 19 kmHigh 29.6°C · Low 25.1°C · 217 mm rain
- Alasia in MayNigeria · 25 kmHigh 29.1°C · Low 25.1°C · 196 mm rain
- Irewe in MayNigeria · 28 kmHigh 29.0°C · Low 25.6°C · 196 mm rain
- Ota in MayNigeria · 32 kmHigh 29.8°C · Low 24.2°C · 218 mm rain
- Ifo in MayNigeria · 46 kmHigh 30.1°C · Low 24.0°C · 218 mm rain
Read the numbers correctly
Climate, not a promise.
These patterns help compare months. They cannot tell you the weather on a specific day of your trip.
Sources, method and limitsHow these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Lagos) is explained once on the Lagos year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Ebute Ikorodu and Lekki lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.